In the Evening There is Feeling: Reading 'Deep Rivers'

In the Evening There is Feeling is DCA’s reading and listening group. It takes its name from Gertrude Stein’s 1914 book Tender Buttons and focuses, in an informal and welcoming way, on texts from the worlds of art and literature, and selected musical works. 

For this session as part of Claudia Martínez Garay’s exhibition at DCA, we will be considering one of the artist’s selected books: Deep Rivers by José Maria Arguedas, a bilingual writer and one of the most notable figures of 20th-century Peruvian literature. 

Considered one of the author’s masterpieces, the novel was published in 1958 and has been significant in thinking through the relationship between indigenous people and the nation state in the context of political struggles. The novel follows teenage protagonist Ernesto, who, as a boarding pupil in a religious school, begins to find the politics of the time arriving on his doorstep, forcing him to choose his own path and side. 

Digital copies of selected excerpts from the book will be sent out to all participants after they have booked a place.